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quietum clamavit predicto ADE ESCABI et heredibus suis, totum
jus et clamium suum quod habuit in predictis vj solidis et x
denariis redditus . . . . . . de se et heredibus suis, in
perpetuum.
Et pro hoc fine et concordia et quieto clamio, predictus ADAM
ESCABI dedit prefato BENEDICTO xxiv . . . .
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XVII — (18)
[19th October, 1197, 9 Ric. I.]
(Reginald de Cornhell and Matilda his wife quitclaim from
themselves
and their heirs to Roger, the Abbot of St. Augustine, and the
Convent
thereof, their claim to the Stewardship of the said Abbey, for
which the
said Abbot and Convent have given the said Reginald and Matilda
eighty marks, and fifty acres of land lying between the Park of
Littlebourne and Wotton, to be held to them and their heirs, of the said Abbot and
Convent,
by the free service of twelve pence per annum.)
Hec est finalis concordia facta in Curia domini Regis, apud
Westmonasterium, vj° die post translationem Sancti Edwardi,
anno regni Regis Ricardi ix°.
Coram H. Cantuariensi Archiepiscopo, Randulpho
Herefordensi,
Ricardo Eliensi, Archidiaconis, magistro Thoma de Husseburne,
Ricardo de Heriet, Simone de Patesnull, Osberto filio Hervei,
Justiciariis, et aliis fidelibus domini Regis ibidem tunc
presentibus.
Inter REGINALDUM DE CORNHELL,1 et MATILDAM uxorem
suam,
per ipsum Reginaldum, positum in loco suo ad lucrandum vel pudendum,
petentes, et ROGERTUM ABBATEM DE SANCTO AUG USTINO, CANTUARIE, et ejusdem loci
Conventum, tenentes.
De Senescancia ejusdem Abbatie, cum pertinenciis.
(continued from page 247) deaths abate {i.e. intrude between and hold illegal
possession] in that land,
rent, or profit, I, who am his heir, shall have this writ of
assize of Mortdauncestor."— Fitzherbert, De Natura Brev. 195,
C.
This writ directed the sheriff to summon a jury or assize, who
were to
view the land in question, and recognize whether such ancestor had
been
seized thereof on the day of his death, and whether the demandant
were next of kin; soon after which the Judges came down by
the Roy al
commission to take the recognition of assize: when, if these
points were
found in the affirmative, the law immediately transferred the
possession
from the tenant to the demandant. (Blackstone, vol.iii., p. 194,
eel. 1857.)
1 It is " Cornh" in original,
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